: How speakers imply meaning beyond their literal words.
: Explores the landmark development of pragmatics, including the works of Morris, Carnap, and Peirce (1930s) and H.P. Grice's 1967 William James lectures.
: How language points to specific entities in time or space. Handbook of Pragmatics
Depending on your research focus, these specific handbooks are the primary resources: Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual. Second edition
The Handbook serves as an authoritative guide to the theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics: : How speakers imply meaning beyond their literal words
: The actions performed through utterance (e.g., promising, requesting). Presupposition : Implicit assumptions made by a speaker.
: Detailed analysis of core pragmatic phenomena: : How language points to specific entities in time or space
: Covers how meaning is processed in the brain (neuropragmatics) and how it functions in social interactions (politeness, identity, and gender). Key Reference Works